GRICE E NESI: L'IMPLICATURA CONVERSAZIONALE -- ADVLESCENTVLI ORATIVNCVLA -- SONO DALLE CELESTE SPHERE VENERE -- PERCHÉ AMORE INSPIRO -- DAGL'ELEMENTI FUOCO -- PERCHÉ D'AMORE ASCENDO DA VOI CON VOCABUL GRECO CHARITA CHIAMATA: PERCHÉ COL MIO ARDORE DELLA GRAZIA DELLA SALUTE VISO DEGNI -- FILOSOFIA ITALIANA

 

Grice e Nesi: l’implicatura conversazionale – adulescentuli oratiuncula – Sono dalle celeste sphere Venere: perché  amore inspiro: dagl’elementi fuoco: perché  d’amore accendo da uoi con vocabul greco CHARITÀ chiamata: perché col mio ardore della GRAZIA della salute viso degni -- filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Firenze). Filosofo italiano. Grice: “I once had a fight with Nowell-Smith; he was saying that a philosopher should not be a moralist; I told him that by that token Nesi wasn’t one!” – “De moribus” Figlio di Francesco di Giovanni e di Nera di Giovanni Spinelli, si dedica interamente agli studi filosofici. Strinsge stretti rapporti con i principali umanisti fiorentini dell'epoca, tra cui Acciaiuoli e Ficino. Influenzato dall'operato di Savonarola, ricopre anche diverse cariche politiche.  Saggi: “Adulescentuli oratiuncula”; “Orazione del corpo di Cristo”; “Orazione de Eucharestia” “ Orazione sull'umiltà” “Sulla carità”; “De moribus”; “De charitate”; “Oraculum de novo saeculo, Canzoniere, Poema. Treccan Dizionario biografico degli italiani,  Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Obviously, Nesi is not having Davidson in mind. But Nesi is wrong in identifying GRAZIA with CHARITA, ‘greco vocabull” – this is an etymological blunder. The charities were indeed three – Eglea, Eufrosina, e Talia – and they danced mainly to eroticse Mars, or more frequently Giove and Mars together --. Of course the expression ‘gratia’ is not cognate! – For Davidson, charity is what the Italians refer to ‘carità’, formed out of ‘carus’ – the spelling with ‘ch’ is a French corruption! So to be charitable, in Davidson’s interpretation, is to be kind, caro. Not graceful! --. Grice: “If Davidson doesn’t know his Greek mythology, that’s not my fault --. Instead of his singular principle of charities, I will take the liberty to sub-divide it into three maxims – The first maxim refers to the first charity, Aglae: splendour; thes second maxim refers to the second charity, Eufrosina, mirth; the third maxim refers to the third charity, Talia, cheer. In Kantian format, these counsels of prudence become: be splendorous – or try to make your conversational move one that is splendorous; be merry – or try to make your conversational move one that will carry mirth to your co-conversationalist; and ‘be cheerful’, try to make your conversational move one as if it was spawned by Thalia!” -- Giovanni Nesi. Nesi. Keywords: adulescentuli oratiuncula, principle of charity, Davidson on charity on Grice. Who was the first Englishman to use ‘charity’ as a hermeneutic principle? Butler. Grice speaks of self-love and benevolence. Benevolence – and charity? Grice is not so much concerned with Beneficenza or Malificenza, but with Benevolenza, and Malevolenza – where does charity fit? What was Ciceronian for charity. What is pre-Christian about charity? Charisma, charitas, folk etymological confusion here – caritativo – carita – caro, “le tre carità in armónico conubio” “tre carità”. Refs.: Luigi Speranza, “Grice e Nesi” – The Swimming-Pool Library.